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Artists use varied media to reflect on EMU past, present and future for Centennial installation

December 19, 2016Last updated February 7, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

In selecting artists for Eastern Mennonite University’s Centennial art installation, curator Ashley Sauder Miller ’03 and the Centennial Visual and Performing Arts Subcommittee sought a range of media, styles and

Ligand synthesis and bio-remediation projects earn top awards at fall student research symposium

December 13, 2016Last updated December 15, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi

Twelve students representing eight research projects across various scientific disciplines had to condense and disseminate their results of weeks or semesters of work at Eastern Mennonite University’s Dec. 7 STEM

Symposium and lecture by Catholic victims advocate Tom Doyle focuses on institutional harms and healing

November 14, 2016Last updated November 15, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Capping a month-long series of events around the topic of healthy sexuality and sexual violence, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) welcomed Father Tom Doyle, a Roman Catholic sexual abuse victim advocate,

Police departments join Zehr Institute restorative justice retreat

November 7, 2016Last updated November 8, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Representatives from 10 police departments across the country will attend a law enforcement retreat on restorative justice Nov. 11-13 near Harrisonburg, Virginia. The retreat is co-hosted by the Harrisonburg (Virginia)

VCU professor, expert on African American women and the Bible to speak on ‘Sketches of Slave Life’

November 2, 2016Last updated November 13, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Professor Katherine Bassard brings her expertise in African American literature to Eastern Mennonite University on Thursday, Nov. 10. She will give a presentation titled ‘Truly a Christian Act’: Freedom and

Restorative justice retreat for police departments set for November

October 3, 2016Last updated October 17, 2016 by Pete DeLea/Daily News-Record

More than a dozen police departments from across the country plan to meet in the Shenandoah Valley to discuss restorative justice practices. The Harrisonburg Police Department (HPD) and Eastern Mennonite

Chappell-Dick named Top 30 For NCAA Woman Of The Year

September 7, 2016Last updated September 8, 2016 by James De Boer

Former EMU All-American Hannah Chappell-Dick (Bluffton, Ohio/Bluffton) has been named one of the top 30 honorees for the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. She is the first-ever woman

Sunflower field east of Harrisonburg opens for Walk for Hope fundraiser

August 26, 2016Last updated August 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

In 2014, the Frazier family planted a field of sunflowers along well-traveled Va. 33. They didn’t quite anticipate the impact of the flowers on passers-by, who stopped cars, gawked, took

‘The last will be the first’: social psychologist Christena Cleveland shares a new paradigm of privilege at faculty/staff conference

August 25, 2016Last updated December 1, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

“The last will be first and the first will be the last: This is what equality looks like, this is what justice is about.” Dr. Christena Cleveland, a social psychologist

Collaborative MBA program’s global classroom meets for week-long residency

August 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Aubrey Bauman, marking manager and sustainability lead at AMERIgreen Energy, enrolled in the Collaborative MBA program for “the opportunity to learn with professors and classmates from across the country and

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